it was 5 ilxors #1
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I had no idea about Stargazer, didn't even know it existed. Very very impressive song.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 August 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
The first two Rainbow albums are quite good and filled with a bunch of classic tracks (search: The Man on the Silver Mountain). I think the first is better but not by a huge margin.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 6 August 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
can I just say that the ppl whining about this list are the worst ppl on earth
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Really? Worse than child molesters or serial killers?
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 August 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
STICK THAT BOOT IN A BIT FURTHER DAN I'M NOT QUITE DEAD
― let it sb (acoleuthic), Friday, 6 August 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
p.s. it's not a bad or unexpected list and I'm cool w/it as long as the albumz poll delivers
― let it sb (acoleuthic), Friday, 6 August 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I think basically what this tracks poll establishes is: a) a bunch of people discovered "Stargazer" in the Dio-RIP thread, b) Supernaut and Ace of Spaces are rock-solid heavy metal exemplars, c) Metallica used to be good.
That's all. After that it's more or less a 100-way tie for 5th, and it trails off from there. There were two tracks in the top 20 that only beat the Osmonds by 4 votes, so complaining about placings is pointless. Too few voters, too little consensus.
Statistically speaking, the album side is quite a bit more coherent: maybe a top 50 or so with actual collective weight.
As entertainment, anything with Henry is fine with me.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 6 August 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Nicely put Glenn.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 6 August 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Great job guys, Herm, JJ, Henry everyone else who helped and voted.
Top four songs fucking rock, and its poetic justice that an RJD song wins!
Last and least: fuck the haters. Mark iv, that's some bullshit to run this thing down. I bitched a lot during it, but it was fun, so fuck you.
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 6 August 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I was out drinking and am too lazy to scroll up; what song were you guessing for #1, Bill?
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Supernaut. You'll see midway through I wavered on it, based on the way things were going, but I cant complain about #1.
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 6 August 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
All in all, this was a lot of fun, and checking in on it all the time cost me some serious productivity at work-but its worth it.
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 6 August 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
It sure was. Good fun all around.Thought there might still be more chat on what just missed out etc.We still have emil.y's not quite live blogging to finish off too!
Check what just missed out! esp johnny & ez
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Funny that I'm such a listoholic when it comes to albums, but when I contemplate ranking songs, my brain seizes up. I didn't get a song ballot in, but knew it was in capable hands. A fun, diverse list, thanx!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Only one other person voted for "Rock You Like a Hurricane". ;_;Only one other person voted for "Nobody's Fool". ;_; ;_; ;_;
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh wait, I essentially voted twice for those, because they were on EZ's ballot. Never has the message been clearer to me that I am an island.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I think basically what this tracks poll establishes is: a) a bunch of people discovered "Stargazer" in the Dio-RIP thread, b) Supernaut and Ace of Spaces are rock-solid heavy metal exemplars, c) Metallica used to be good.....Nicely put Glenn.
Yes. That was the Stargazer of post-poll wrapups.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
132,The Osmonds - Crazy Horses,241,8,30.125,0
This was my #1 so...um...er...
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 6 August 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
wait if you are serious i need to check if something went wrong here
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE CGI (jjjusten), Friday, 6 August 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
would your ballot be under the name kevin john bozelka or kjb or what?
also did you get a confirmation email?
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE CGI (jjjusten), Friday, 6 August 2010 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
email me if you dont want your ballot name out in public or whatever obv
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE CGI (jjjusten), Friday, 6 August 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
It was under Kevin John Bozelka as far as I recall. pfunkboy even castigated me for including Kid Rock, etc.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 6 August 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
wait and this was a tracks list?
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE CGI (jjjusten), Friday, 6 August 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i show an album list from you, but no track list at all.
let me check further and get back to you
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE CGI (jjjusten), Friday, 6 August 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Yup. Track list sent on 7/21/10 at 6:12pm CST.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 6 August 2010 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
a bunch of people discovered "Stargazer" in the Dio-RIP thread,
That may be the case, then they discovered a real treat. My memories of it go back to Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show all time tracks pollin the early 80s where it would always finish in the top 3 with 'Smoke on the Water' and 'Stairway to Heaven'.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Friday, 6 August 2010 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks to all for organising, looking forward to the Spotify playlist and of course the albums poll!
but this list is rather reactionary, no offence *shit-eating grin*
What does this even mean? Reactionary because there's very little god-awful prog rock, a genre that is arguably horribly reactionary itself? In other words, unless you have something positive to contribute, maybe try something new and keep it shut.
― Neil S, Friday, 6 August 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
^
'twas a lot of fun, thanks v much guys
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 August 2010 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
5
― frap rock (crüt), Friday, 6 August 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
This list is fucking bonkers but if it was like a Spotify playlist round someone's house w/ a bunch of beers I'd be completely fine about listening to it
I didn't vote but I almost never vote in ilx polls
― someone who has fainted mid-squeeze at a Real Big Fish gig recently (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 August 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
word. shocked (and delighted) by the winner, fwiw.
― Quo riff just isn't a suitable vehicle for interplanetary exploration (Ioannis), Friday, 6 August 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
kjb , will need to get glenn to check the results, but we definitely got your ballot, i dunno what happened. fuck
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Definitely no KJB tracks ballot in the spreadsheet, and thus none in Needle. Obviously no technical problem with adding it now, but no doubt riots would ensue if it changed the winners. So maybe declare martial law briefly before updating?
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 6 August 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
glenn, im on googlechat, will chat to you when you get on.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:34 (thirteen years ago) link
osmonds till wouldnt make it btw. a couple of songs would move up a bit.kjb im really really sorry, i dunno what happened.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Great that a song I've never heard of before won it. But it wouldn't have won if Ronnie James hadn't popped his clogs this year, would it?
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
My original hopes for this poll would be that every voter besides myself would be like Chon D and Roxy and various other serious metal dudes and they would all have pretty serious opinions about the merits of exciting occult shit like Methgaroth and Burning Tomb and Funeral Battle. But in the end, I learned about a few much more basic bands that I should have been paying attention to anyway.
― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
they dont vote, but albums list will be more to your (and maybe their) liking.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Well yeah, I know they don't vote, but like, shadowy images of them or something.
― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link
: )
I don't think you will be disappointed by the results
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
An army of miniature Roxy- and John-shaped demons that pour out of that hole in the backyard where the tree fell down after the lightning strike.
― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
This is what I was expecting, too.
― emil.y, Friday, 6 August 2010 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Shit like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4h3suwonk
― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Friday, 6 August 2010 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
My original hopes for this poll would be that every voter besides myself would be like Chon D and Roxy and various other serious metal dudes and they would all have pretty serious opinions about the merits of exciting occult shit like Methgaroth and Burning Tomb and Funeral Battle.
So glad it wasn't like that!
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 6 August 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
It was a Metal AND Heavy Rock poll after all
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel tempted to do a straight glam/hair metal poll, since that genre seemed to almost completely get the shaft.
― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
It's my honest hope however, that after this ILM will have sated itself on polls.
― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link